Caitlin Doughty Quotes

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I thought that we all were afraid of death, but I've talked to my wife and other people, and they're not afraid of death the way I am. I find that really confusing. I don't like the idea of nothingness - that's terrifying to me.

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don't look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don't worry about it because it's going to happen to me as it does to anybody.

I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death!

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.

I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.

I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.

It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I would hate the thought of dying full stop; I've got to be honest with you.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!

I've always been terrified of dying, always. It was a concern of mine long before it had to be.

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about how to die - distinguishes us from other animals. The need to manage death is the particular lot of humanity.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.

Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.

As a kid, all I thought about was death.

We used to think earthly life was horrible and paradise awaited us when we died. Now we have made earthly life into a paradise and we fear death.